Philip in Series 4.
Bumbling, awkward and radioactive when it comes to attracting girls – it's like Philip Ryan was given an anti-smooth vaccine at birth. Philip's quick, funny and endearing – in a fairer universe he'd be popular, but at school he was the resident oddball, just desperate to be included. Philip's flakey mother, Melissa, dragged him around the country throughout his childhood, so when they finally settled at Waterloo Road, Philip quickly grew close to his reliable aunt. Unfortunately his 'Aunt Rachel' was known as 'Miss Mason' to everyone else and being outed as the headteacher's nephew, meant Philip kissed goodbye to his last remaining shred of street cred.
Since graduating, Philip has been doing 'this and that'. He got a job in a bar but frightened the customers. He was lucky to bag work cleaning buses at nights but kept falling asleep on the back seat. Philip also appeared in Waterloo Road Reunited. He was portrayed by Dean Smith.
Philip once gave Flick Mellor some of Rachel's used underwear as a present. He stalked her until later on in Series 4, when he understood that Flick was not interested.
Philip was also assaulted by Max Tyler which left his back bruised. In Series 5 Episode 10, Philip humiliated Max during his act in the school talent show, because he overheard Max talking about his plan to get Miss Mason fired. Luckily, it did not happen as she and Kim Campbell found out about the assault and Max got fired instead. Philip then left with classmates Bolton Smilie, Paul Langley and Michaela White in Episode 20 as they all graduated.
Quotes[]
- "No." (first line)
- Philip: "Why would you wanna get beaten up? Boxing's for losers."
- Bolton: "You don't know what you're talking about, mate."
- Philip: "Can you afford to lose any more brain cells?"
- Philip: "I'm not supposed to tell anyone, but I don't know what else to do."
- Rachel: "About what, Philip?"
- Philip: "The fact is...she's still married...to my dad."
- Philip: "I promised I wouldn't say anything, but, I don't think it's fair on Eddie."
- Rachel: "Sorry, you're not making any sense."
- Philip: "Mum's still married."
- Rachel: "What?"
- Philip: "Actually, she's married to two men. My dad and some other bloke. She married my dad when she was still with her first husband."
- "Yeah, alright. I'm a virgin, too. Get over it."
- "They did give us Tyler, though. And I know we shoulda kept the receipt, but what can you do? He's very dependable, is our Mr Tyler. You can always rely on him to ruin your day. And now he's trying to ruin the school. Getting rid of all the best things about it, all the best people. Ah, I'd better watch my step here, eh, Max? I don't want to get you angry. Cos we both know what happens when you get angry. Don't we, Max?"
- Ros: "This is stupid, Philip. I want for us to be friends."
- Philip: "Yeah, well, I want for you to not be such a lying, cheating, lesbian cow, but we can't get what we want, can we?"
- "No. But hey, who am I bringing to the wedding? My gay ex-girlfriend. So I'm not entirely sure I'm the right person to be getting relationship advice from."
- "Cheers." (final line in the main series)
- "I can't believe Janeece is charging 10 quid to get into her house." (first line in Waterloo Road Reunited)
- "The memory still haunts me." (final line in Waterloo Road Reunited)